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Chicago examiner f - fsfr/'v 0&s a m^^*w m : r " : ' terrt^taw r s c^-t-^ix to southerly ffnds i utl-u l â€¢" w ncreasing ' > l 3i uauge of the temperatures i ptrr\.a*^^Â£tr highest 68v kÂ»qf f lowest 0 ilu .-'^^' average til vol ix no 216 a m wednesday vflcago august 30 1911 16 pages -Â» . wednesday â– arc mm registered is d s patent office 400 flee fire in down town building i girls stampede prevented byfl i cool heads in patten i block blaze i \ elevator mam is herol telephone operator sticks tol her post and is carried i out unconscious i four hundred men women and girls ilcilb terror-stricken by stairway elevator audh tire escape yesterday when flames suddcn-b k ly burst from the windows of the twelve-b | story patten office building al west l-larri-b son street and fifth avenue h only a few were injured slightly cool-b headed men and women preventing b stampede that might have resulted in greatb loss of life with scores of frighlenedh women clinging to the are escapes men < : h j he street gave warning that there was nuh teat danger and prevented several fromh jumping one girl ou the fifth floor wasb ompelled to pass almost directly in rtiph line of the flames pouring out of the win-b dow below her she hesitated and ap-h reared about to leap to the street whenb another woman took her by the arm andb he two passed safely down to the ground b the cool act of the second woman wasb observed by hundreds in the street andh the pair were lustily cheered as tbey de-h bj seended h b some of those in peril i h among those who escaped from the build h h ing by way of the fire escape were fan-m he oie p.utbcr 2111 osgood street l-eonam h kandle 202j branden place margaretb â– koch 310 north fifty-second avenue ade-b h li.ie fox 3030 west polk street clara i kalman 2705 wilcox avenue nannie rap-b h er 1-14 lincoln avenue mary kosenstein b h 10-19 west taylor street anna stillman b b 328 east forty-first street elsie raniten-b lial 323 lowe avenue souta lombardo h k '.)::(.; milton avenue mary lombardo !â– :;<â€¢â– wf mliton avenue mary marscarella 1102 mil-b i ; ii avenue may judge 1117 i jarraheo i b lrcet may horner 541s south may street i k flciiha weinslcic 1013 west twelfth i â– i â– woman calms girls fears i â– aleanwhile there was the greatest eon-fl b fusion inside as hundreds stampeded fori b the stairways and elevators the stairways i b were jammed and only the act of somel foolhardy person was needed to send scoresi h of human beings to their death in a beapl h at the bottom of the stairways but al-b b ways there was some man or woman inl . the right place to calm the fears onel i j woman as she forced ber way to thel b j head of a roomful of young girls as tbeyl i a phiew themselves toward the stairway be-b k gan congratulating them on the hour ofl i holiday they were getting i we don't forget to come around on time inl b the morning she laughed we mayl i have to clean up a little mess before web b get our desks straightened out i b the rush was halted and the girls passed i b lown as orderly as they might had they i bf been leaving the building as usual ati b uitting time while the smoke almost b stifled them and the flames shot out froml b loorways they passed i b phone operator overcome | b miss catherine hayden 0343 south wood b street a telephone operator employed on i b the eleventh floor by the harrison coal bm company was overcome by smoke being i hb the last one to attempt to leave the office h miss hayden stopped to answer several alls while others were fleeing and when she started toward the door was overcome she was missed by fellow employes and ibe policemen holding back the crowd in front of the structure were notified tbey jb hurried into the buildiug and soon re turned carrying the young woman she b revived soon after reaching the fresh air b she was removed to her home in an atn b bulance â– elevator man a hero b a p greig 1739 west one hundred and b first street proved the hero of the ele raters he was the operator of one and b he never left his post until the last per b son was out of the building when he b brought down the final load he had to be b cnrri-1 from his car but quickly revived b in the open air the three other cle b vator men also did heroic work all stick b ing â– <â– their ni " s i " â€¢*â– -â€¢ last * b the building is across from the grand b central station and is occupied chiefly . ..- offices mostly those of railroads b most of the firms were preparing to close fbi the day when the fire broke out it b its * i jn the north end of the fourth b oi in the store room of the Chicago s b i the loss is estimated at 25,000 not h including priceless records of the Chicago b & alton railroad b besides the railroad company the homes iunufacturinir company fourth floor & co tailors third floor and the b tailv'r manufacturing company suffered lost .'-. thousands of dollars worth of b njj and suitings iu meyer ! c.'s st'.k b ! i fretb ruined by water b the b lilding ext-"ids from 198 to 10 bo-rison tree delaware's shells nearly sink the ohio nine miles distant disaster menaces remarkable arget shooting off hampton roads washington aug 29 the great dreadnought delaware the pride of the navy hit the target battleship texas twice yesterday it a distance of teu miles and caine near sinking the ohio which was stationed nearby this bitter perform ance was not on the programme and to day was the sensation of the fleet off hampton roads the delaware for some time had been shooting 12-inch shells at the texas at a range of seventeen thousaud yards she got the range accurately after several shots and placed two shells in the hull of the texas other battleships and cruisers had taken position at what was considered a safe distance ah of a sudden the after turret of the delaware opened fire and it was supposed she intended to annihilate the texas with two more twelve-inch shells the first shell from the delaware whistled close to the ohio nine miles away and gave the jackies and sailors the cold shivers sig nals to cease firing were run up but before tbey were observed by the delaware another twelve-inch shell hit the water so close to the ohio that it splashed the water on the decks of that battleship tunnel for teamsters at oil king s palace i drivers must go under the earth because rockefeller wants top for himself tarkttown n y aug 29.-j.)1iii d rockefeller has begun the work of digging a tunnel from his mansion on top of ky kuit hill to a road near his stable to be used by drivers of all delivery wagous the tunnel will be about 1.000 feet long and will cost many thousands of dollars but mr rockefeller has decided that here after no delivery wagons will drive up to his home it practically puts mr rockefeller on top of the earth and he will have nothing to worry him as he roams about his great es tate when the tunnel is completed and mr rockefeller is again in his home no one will be allowed near the house 3 charged as mashers court frees them tells them to visit girls at homes three men were dismissed after makiug pleas for leniency before municipal judge ublir at the desplaines street court yes terday afternoon they were charged with disorderly conduct they are frank bag ley 3510 lexington street a clerk em ployed on the board of trade frank mc donald 3841 glady avenue a law student and george h naylor 4429 west congress street a salesman they were arrested august 18 in garfield park charged with forcing their attentions on young women the court advised them to call on young women at their homes and not in the parks official flirter active los angeles woman catches ten mashers in two days los angeles cal aug 29 ten men who flirted with miss fay evans the volunteer official flirter of the police department have been arrested within tlie last forty-eight hours four pleaded guilty in court to-day and were fined 30 each another skipped his bail five others were arrested to-night miss evans who is serving the city without pay is still on the streets convoyed by two plain clotbes men awaiting the advances of other mashers bodies cut from glacier berne switzerland aug 2l the j frozen bodies of two men were chopped jfrom the loestchen glacier to-day and brought to this city while the bodies have not as yet been identified it is be lioed here that they are probably those of two loudou tourists named bemebecke land coin who disappeared fourteen years ago bridegroom writes bride he's bigamist byron e bryan tells girl he wed he will get a divorce miss hills in despair she sings merry songs while heart is breaking father fears suicide bigamy and obtaining money under false pretences are charges which will be pre ferred against byron evermont bryau em ploye of the sauer motor truck com pany bridegroom of three weeks and dapper young man if he ever returns to Chicago according to the statement of his bride who was formerly miss pearl hills of 3030 forrestville avenue bryau is said to be in ohio and yesterday morning his bride who had ex pected he would return at any moment received a letter from him written in cin cinnati and saying that be could not come back to Chicago as be would have to face a bigamy charge he asked the bride to wait for him and that he w6uld get a divorce from the first wife and marry her again bride does not want to live the parents of the young bride have watched her constantly since the news has come to her her fatber said last night pearl told me when she went to bed last night that it was terrible to know that byron had left her though she didn't know then of the existence of the other woman i wish she said that i'd never wake up again i don't want to live this morning the letter came and pearl has been under a terrible strain ever since i am afraid every time i go into the house that they will tell me she has killed herself sings while heart is breaking the bride was having a party at her home last night and there was a group of young people there they sang and played and had refreshments and the deserted bride of less than three weeks her heart breaking within her played hostess and sang merry songs with her friends several times she had to leave the room and cry her heart out alone she wore a pretty little evening dpc:-s one of her trous seau gowns and wb**n a woman reports called to see her she smilingly ushered her into the dining room if you want to see me on business i'll bring you iu here she said i am having a party when told what the business was the girl broke down and cried pitifully oh its all true she wailed it's all true but why do people have to know about it who told it i just got the letter this morning i don't know who the woman is and i don't even know that byron was telling the truth in that letter maybe i am le gally married to him after all and be is just trying to get away i can't under stand it all and i don't know what to do i am waiting developments knew him only short time my daughter knew byron only a short time said the father of the girl and we thought be was all right i wish i knew where he was i'd take the next train and fix him when 1 found him i don't know that there is another wife and i very much doubt that statement he has certainly spoiled the life of my little girl and she says she will not stay in Chicago a single day if the fact of the desertion becomes known she has a fashionable trade in dressmaking and she is sensitive and wouldn't face any of them if this dis grace was public elwood potts is safe missing Chicago artist writes to his | wife from boston the fears of mrs elwood potts 1002 west monroe street concerning her artist husband were allayed yesterday when she received a letter sent by him from boston potts went to boston several days ago to do work for frederick millson a stained glass manufacturer when he failed to write to his wife she became alarmed and asked the boston police to hunt for him it was learned that he had passed one night at millson's home hut trace of him after that was lost mrs potts was not at home last night but a friend told of the letter she had received from her bus band john d jr vice crusader new york aug 29 through the ef forts of a wealthy vice crusader who the police insinuate is john d rockefeller jr oresto del noee who claims to be an ital ian nobleman was arrested to-day charged with abducting fifteen-year-old doris wei gel of cleveland the couple were found in an apartment in west one hundred and sixteenth street the girl posed as del noce's daughter at first but broke down mdcr cross-examination and admitted she had been kindaped week with grouse 50,000 special cable to the examiner london aug 20 harry payne whit ney left london yesterday for scotland i for grouse shooting over the famous hol l wick hall noors of teesdale which he j has rented from earl strathn>re be '< sides mrs whitney and the chmreu the j other memiwrs of the party included h j burden and h payne tbon on mr i payne expects to remain at eolwlefe only iter a week bat it is estimated that it will cost him 0,000 divorcee sues for 10,000 droppe unknown losses 1,000,000 and husband in 7 years thrown into street jsffijg f quarter eol ofagjwbleb 1 imerffie blifsorats handbook man at pal mer house [Â§ defendant m woman tells amazing tale of meecing r at hands of Chicago booi{jes and clubs i she joined mother now supports her m yi v rs etta billings of marshfield ore mother of mrs ber h&j i \/\ nice beatrice billiugs bronson a frail refined looking little h â– **. i woman with dreamy eyes the divorced wife of colonel vv'il sb a liam g brouson the stillwater minn millionaire lumberman h has brought suit against william ryan a wealthy handbook man with â– headquarters at the palmer house to recover 10,000 which mrs bronson h has lost on the races â– mrs bronson said that this was b ut a small part of her losses since she si made her first bet in 1904 she lost her husband and the probability of is inheriting his several millions her health has been shattered by th fl nervous strain her losses during the past few months amount to 40,000 1 this is the story of her financial ruin as mrs bronson told it to an 3 examiner reporter last night i my craze for gambling â€” born at the race track and nourished by chi fi cago handbook men â€” has cost me 1,0 00,000 and a husband since i placed " my first bet in 1904 think of it a million dollars ani a husband in seven years â€” what i a price to pay for the joy of studying th dope sheets day after day and trying to pick the winners quite a price to pay for the flatteries of hand-book graft i ers who keep you stirred up with the j idea that you will one day pick a hua dred-to-one shot and get back all losses | mother now supports her my mother mrs etta billlngb who . - - lives in oregon and is now my sole source of support thinks the price i paid a too heavy one through mrs antoinette funk as attorney she has brought sni t to recover 10,000 of my losses from wil liam rynu who for a long time has run a handbook at the palmer house the owners of the hotel property and the lessees of the hotel are to be made co defendants how did i begin to gamble on the horses one day my husband who grati fied my every wish took me with a party of friends to the race track i put dowa a 5 bet as a joke and won it was like contracting a malignant fever in a flash the gambling disease tingled in every vein at first i only bet when i went to the race track but that was often then they abollbhed the race tracks and i fell into the clutches of the handbook men that was the beginning of the end when a school girl in Chicago i met a telegrapher named william byan later on i met a new william ryan smiling well dressed accepted in society when he found how i was plunging he let me under | stand that he was making a handbook at | the palmer house it was easy to place | bets there if mr byan was ont his see | retary was on hand he got much of my i money fully 10,000 the amount named la i the suit my mother has just brought | bank checks as evidence | i gambled with other handbook mea i but usually used cash much of the time 1 1 gave ltyan checks on the drexel state i bank these checks will be used as evi i dence in the suit i i became a regular member of the i arlington club indiana avenue and thirty i first street that richly furnished palm gai iden of gambling which is particularly de i signed to get the dollars of women thou i sands of my money were banded over to i phil clreen,\who ran the book and his aa * i soc-lates a few weeks ago i was in des i perate straits i my mother i allowance i check had been delayed i needed 25 cents i for car fare i went to phil tireen and i asked for it would you believe that he i had me thrown into the street long be i fore i thought of suiug kyan i needed 75 i and asked him to loan it to me he i would not let me have a penny there is i the open-hearted gambler for you 1 in all my gambling experi>:uoe i never i won a big bet parlays were my par t i tienlar ruin i was always trying to beat i the whole card i could no more have i stopped while my money lasted than Â£ i could place a bet with william ryan uow i that i am penniless j || if you ever get in fuuds again will j i you go back to betting the reporter ij asked j i i hope i have learned my lesson j^^hb ii bronson's face took on a land perhaps she murmun m 1 her thin lips the lord m l new reason for being j | rst am 1 were boy lovers smw || was amk | sam been living fl ii on ram-j l he been writiufl i coming to make 9m â– but our hsaifl mrs bernice bronson former society woman on her fa vorite saddle horse in center colons v _Â„ jsronson the millio naire lumber operator of stillwater who divorced her hearst 50,000 air flight on sept 10 los angeles novice first en trant c p rodgers and atwood also plan trip new york aug 29 robert g fow ler of los angeles cal is the first for mal entrant lu the coast-to-coast flighf for the 50,000 prize offered by william randolph hearst c fred grundy a millionaire califor nian filed the requisite fourteen days no tice to-day and left for the pacific coast he will back fowler to the extent of 33,000 the aviator who is twenty seven years old is finishing his aviation course with the wright brothers at dayton he will start from san francisco on sep tember 10 and will be followed by a spe cial train carrying two mechanicians and enough spare parts to bnild three biplanes besides complete living accommodations harry n atwood who made the record breaking 1.265-mile flight from st louis to new york to-day signed a contract for a tweuty-flve weeks tour of the vaudeville theaters for which he will receive 50 000 the famous young aviator has an i nounced his intention of participating in | the w r hearst 50,000 transcontinental flight contest in spite of his theatrical en gagements neenah wis aug 29 c p rodgers the aviator who won the endurance prize at the Chicago aviation meet to-day an nounced his intention ot competing against atwood and fowler in the hearst 50,000 ocean to ocean flight rodgers will aban don the wright aeroplane he has been using and take to the curtiss make following the offer of the western pa cific railway through its passenger traffic manager e l lot-sax to furnish a spe cial train from salt lake city to san francisco or vice versa to aviators who contemplate trying for the hearst 50,000 prize for a coasl-to-coast flight a number of inquiries have been made and the queen aeroplane company of new york bas ac cepted the offer for its contestant cashier is arrested as embezzler of 17,000 louis a steveley of Chicago traced i to cheap lodging house in dubuque i lucius ... steveley of 3900 jackson boulevard cashier of the patent vulcanite roofing company was arrested yesterday in dubuque la on a warrant issued by the vice president of the company he is barged witb embezzling 17,000 of the company's money detective sergeant thomas mcfarland left last night for du buque to bring steveley to Chicago ' a week ago the cashier heard that au ditors were to examine the company's books and left Chicago in dubuque he lived in a cheap boarding house under thc name of lawrence a swift it is said he hoped the shortage would be overlooked and that be could come back home safely steveley has a wife and four-year-old daughter liviug at the jackson boulevard home before he left Chicago it is said he confessed to hia wife when steveley was arrested by assistant superiutendeut w k webster of the pink erton service he bad but s3o through the law firm ot tenuey coffeen harding & sherman the roofing company has filed an attachment suit in the circuit court agains all of stevcley's effects personal and otherwise wine supper and too many fine auto mobiles are said to bave been the cause of steveley's downfall he spent much of his time at rector's and it was there he gave many of his suppers his two big touring cars were always at the disposal of bis friends and his wife bad au electric car and exquisite clothes the new years dinners that steveley gave at rector's were always affairs which his friends and acquaintances would tdnt for invitations list of dead grows in atlantic storm passengers tell how liner was kept afloat with pistols at stokers heads charleston s . aug 20 with charleston in darkness to-night her streets littered with broken trees fences and other debris nearly all shipping in the harbor badly damaged the docks lifted out of place six torpedo boats ashore and great damage done at the navy yard and the water which has blown into the city by the great storm of sunday night reced ing the authorities are making every ef fort to ascertain the exact toll of death which already reaches twelve communication is still interrupted with points both north and outh of this city and it is impossible to learu anything from those directions no word has come from the sea islands some distance out but it is feared that the loss of life there has been large as the islands must have been completely submerged by the great seas blown in by the 95-mile gale it will be several days before the total number of dead and injured is known and the exteut of the property damage which runs into the millions can be ascertained new yoijk aug 29 with all her deck gear swept away the plate glass windows of her cabins smashed and ll badly scared passengers aboard the ward liner havana reached port to-night hav ing encountered a terriflc hurricane on sunday when the hurricane struck the havana there was no tint . to batten down the hatches and the sea pushed its way below decks flooding staterooms lockers and renehlng as far as th . flreroom most of thc passengers left their cabin and hurried to the main saloon where many of them knelt and prayed to-day to-morrow and the day after to-day something happens to-morrow you realize that there has heen created a want you read the examiner want ad pages and â€” the day after your want is sup plied the wants of a week can he tilled in a few short moments hy answering the want ads in to day's examiner the examiner accepts ads over the telephone or you can send your ad to the convenient want ad office v Chicago examiner waist ad office no 9 w madison si just west of state st phoue main 0000 automatic 44344

Chicago examiner f - fsfr/'v 0&s a m^^*w m : r " : ' terrt^taw r s c^-t-^ix to southerly ffnds i utl-u l â€¢" w ncreasing ' > l 3i uauge of the temperatures i ptrr\.a*^^Â£tr highest 68v kÂ»qf f lowest 0 ilu .-'^^' average til vol ix no 216 a m wednesday vflcago august 30 1911 16 pages -Â» . wednesday â– arc mm registered is d s patent office 400 flee fire in down town building i girls stampede prevented byfl i cool heads in patten i block blaze i \ elevator mam is herol telephone operator sticks tol her post and is carried i out unconscious i four hundred men women and girls ilcilb terror-stricken by stairway elevator audh tire escape yesterday when flames suddcn-b k ly burst from the windows of the twelve-b | story patten office building al west l-larri-b son street and fifth avenue h only a few were injured slightly cool-b headed men and women preventing b stampede that might have resulted in greatb loss of life with scores of frighlenedh women clinging to the are escapes men < : h j he street gave warning that there was nuh teat danger and prevented several fromh jumping one girl ou the fifth floor wasb ompelled to pass almost directly in rtiph line of the flames pouring out of the win-b dow below her she hesitated and ap-h reared about to leap to the street whenb another woman took her by the arm andb he two passed safely down to the ground b the cool act of the second woman wasb observed by hundreds in the street andh the pair were lustily cheered as tbey de-h bj seended h b some of those in peril i h among those who escaped from the build h h ing by way of the fire escape were fan-m he oie p.utbcr 2111 osgood street l-eonam h kandle 202j branden place margaretb â– koch 310 north fifty-second avenue ade-b h li.ie fox 3030 west polk street clara i kalman 2705 wilcox avenue nannie rap-b h er 1-14 lincoln avenue mary kosenstein b h 10-19 west taylor street anna stillman b b 328 east forty-first street elsie raniten-b lial 323 lowe avenue souta lombardo h k '.)::(.; milton avenue mary lombardo !â– :;re be '< sides mrs whitney and the chmreu the j other memiwrs of the party included h j burden and h payne tbon on mr i payne expects to remain at eolwlefe only iter a week bat it is estimated that it will cost him 0,000 divorcee sues for 10,000 droppe unknown losses 1,000,000 and husband in 7 years thrown into street jsffijg f quarter eol ofagjwbleb 1 imerffie blifsorats handbook man at pal mer house [Â§ defendant m woman tells amazing tale of meecing r at hands of Chicago booi{jes and clubs i she joined mother now supports her m yi v rs etta billings of marshfield ore mother of mrs ber h&j i \/\ nice beatrice billiugs bronson a frail refined looking little h â– **. i woman with dreamy eyes the divorced wife of colonel vv'il sb a liam g brouson the stillwater minn millionaire lumberman h has brought suit against william ryan a wealthy handbook man with â– headquarters at the palmer house to recover 10,000 which mrs bronson h has lost on the races â– mrs bronson said that this was b ut a small part of her losses since she si made her first bet in 1904 she lost her husband and the probability of is inheriting his several millions her health has been shattered by th fl nervous strain her losses during the past few months amount to 40,000 1 this is the story of her financial ruin as mrs bronson told it to an 3 examiner reporter last night i my craze for gambling â€” born at the race track and nourished by chi fi cago handbook men â€” has cost me 1,0 00,000 and a husband since i placed " my first bet in 1904 think of it a million dollars ani a husband in seven years â€” what i a price to pay for the joy of studying th dope sheets day after day and trying to pick the winners quite a price to pay for the flatteries of hand-book graft i ers who keep you stirred up with the j idea that you will one day pick a hua dred-to-one shot and get back all losses | mother now supports her my mother mrs etta billlngb who . - - lives in oregon and is now my sole source of support thinks the price i paid a too heavy one through mrs antoinette funk as attorney she has brought sni t to recover 10,000 of my losses from wil liam rynu who for a long time has run a handbook at the palmer house the owners of the hotel property and the lessees of the hotel are to be made co defendants how did i begin to gamble on the horses one day my husband who grati fied my every wish took me with a party of friends to the race track i put dowa a 5 bet as a joke and won it was like contracting a malignant fever in a flash the gambling disease tingled in every vein at first i only bet when i went to the race track but that was often then they abollbhed the race tracks and i fell into the clutches of the handbook men that was the beginning of the end when a school girl in Chicago i met a telegrapher named william byan later on i met a new william ryan smiling well dressed accepted in society when he found how i was plunging he let me under | stand that he was making a handbook at | the palmer house it was easy to place | bets there if mr byan was ont his see | retary was on hand he got much of my i money fully 10,000 the amount named la i the suit my mother has just brought | bank checks as evidence | i gambled with other handbook mea i but usually used cash much of the time 1 1 gave ltyan checks on the drexel state i bank these checks will be used as evi i dence in the suit i i became a regular member of the i arlington club indiana avenue and thirty i first street that richly furnished palm gai iden of gambling which is particularly de i signed to get the dollars of women thou i sands of my money were banded over to i phil clreen,\who ran the book and his aa * i soc-lates a few weeks ago i was in des i perate straits i my mother i allowance i check had been delayed i needed 25 cents i for car fare i went to phil tireen and i asked for it would you believe that he i had me thrown into the street long be i fore i thought of suiug kyan i needed 75 i and asked him to loan it to me he i would not let me have a penny there is i the open-hearted gambler for you 1 in all my gambling experi>:uoe i never i won a big bet parlays were my par t i tienlar ruin i was always trying to beat i the whole card i could no more have i stopped while my money lasted than Â£ i could place a bet with william ryan uow i that i am penniless j || if you ever get in fuuds again will j i you go back to betting the reporter ij asked j i i hope i have learned my lesson j^^hb ii bronson's face took on a land perhaps she murmun m 1 her thin lips the lord m l new reason for being j | rst am 1 were boy lovers smw || was amk | sam been living fl ii on ram-j l he been writiufl i coming to make 9m â– but our hsaifl mrs bernice bronson former society woman on her fa vorite saddle horse in center colons v _Â„ jsronson the millio naire lumber operator of stillwater who divorced her hearst 50,000 air flight on sept 10 los angeles novice first en trant c p rodgers and atwood also plan trip new york aug 29 robert g fow ler of los angeles cal is the first for mal entrant lu the coast-to-coast flighf for the 50,000 prize offered by william randolph hearst c fred grundy a millionaire califor nian filed the requisite fourteen days no tice to-day and left for the pacific coast he will back fowler to the extent of 33,000 the aviator who is twenty seven years old is finishing his aviation course with the wright brothers at dayton he will start from san francisco on sep tember 10 and will be followed by a spe cial train carrying two mechanicians and enough spare parts to bnild three biplanes besides complete living accommodations harry n atwood who made the record breaking 1.265-mile flight from st louis to new york to-day signed a contract for a tweuty-flve weeks tour of the vaudeville theaters for which he will receive 50 000 the famous young aviator has an i nounced his intention of participating in | the w r hearst 50,000 transcontinental flight contest in spite of his theatrical en gagements neenah wis aug 29 c p rodgers the aviator who won the endurance prize at the Chicago aviation meet to-day an nounced his intention ot competing against atwood and fowler in the hearst 50,000 ocean to ocean flight rodgers will aban don the wright aeroplane he has been using and take to the curtiss make following the offer of the western pa cific railway through its passenger traffic manager e l lot-sax to furnish a spe cial train from salt lake city to san francisco or vice versa to aviators who contemplate trying for the hearst 50,000 prize for a coasl-to-coast flight a number of inquiries have been made and the queen aeroplane company of new york bas ac cepted the offer for its contestant cashier is arrested as embezzler of 17,000 louis a steveley of Chicago traced i to cheap lodging house in dubuque i lucius ... steveley of 3900 jackson boulevard cashier of the patent vulcanite roofing company was arrested yesterday in dubuque la on a warrant issued by the vice president of the company he is barged witb embezzling 17,000 of the company's money detective sergeant thomas mcfarland left last night for du buque to bring steveley to Chicago ' a week ago the cashier heard that au ditors were to examine the company's books and left Chicago in dubuque he lived in a cheap boarding house under thc name of lawrence a swift it is said he hoped the shortage would be overlooked and that be could come back home safely steveley has a wife and four-year-old daughter liviug at the jackson boulevard home before he left Chicago it is said he confessed to hia wife when steveley was arrested by assistant superiutendeut w k webster of the pink erton service he bad but s3o through the law firm ot tenuey coffeen harding & sherman the roofing company has filed an attachment suit in the circuit court agains all of stevcley's effects personal and otherwise wine supper and too many fine auto mobiles are said to bave been the cause of steveley's downfall he spent much of his time at rector's and it was there he gave many of his suppers his two big touring cars were always at the disposal of bis friends and his wife bad au electric car and exquisite clothes the new years dinners that steveley gave at rector's were always affairs which his friends and acquaintances would tdnt for invitations list of dead grows in atlantic storm passengers tell how liner was kept afloat with pistols at stokers heads charleston s . aug 20 with charleston in darkness to-night her streets littered with broken trees fences and other debris nearly all shipping in the harbor badly damaged the docks lifted out of place six torpedo boats ashore and great damage done at the navy yard and the water which has blown into the city by the great storm of sunday night reced ing the authorities are making every ef fort to ascertain the exact toll of death which already reaches twelve communication is still interrupted with points both north and outh of this city and it is impossible to learu anything from those directions no word has come from the sea islands some distance out but it is feared that the loss of life there has been large as the islands must have been completely submerged by the great seas blown in by the 95-mile gale it will be several days before the total number of dead and injured is known and the exteut of the property damage which runs into the millions can be ascertained new yoijk aug 29 with all her deck gear swept away the plate glass windows of her cabins smashed and ll badly scared passengers aboard the ward liner havana reached port to-night hav ing encountered a terriflc hurricane on sunday when the hurricane struck the havana there was no tint . to batten down the hatches and the sea pushed its way below decks flooding staterooms lockers and renehlng as far as th . flreroom most of thc passengers left their cabin and hurried to the main saloon where many of them knelt and prayed to-day to-morrow and the 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